Barely floating

Chapter 2: What The HELL Is Happening?

Time passes so fast exactly when you don't want it to what the hell? I was just about get to the climax scene where the two main characters would meet and the break just had to end.

I keep the same book I had almost read about nine times in the past three months because it's that good back in my bag which had the slightest amount of pink in it which is directly proportional to my self-esteem and I head towards my classroom on the second floor of this perfectly bland building for the Psychology Class taken by pretty much like our all the dead inside teachers who are clearly frustrated at their wage money- Mr.Albert last name that no knows.

I mean sure he doesn't really teach us anything because he is too done with life but he is also for some reason extremely nice to me, I guess because I haven't yet bunked any of his classes or I just usually get a decent score but not because of his exceptionally wonderful teaching skills rather because I genuinely like this subject and I am kind of good at teaching myself as that's literally how I have survived the past 16 years of my life going through all the foster care and later adoption process related things.

Yeah I am adopted, dum! dum! DUM! but no I don't have an amazing story which would make you believe in humanity and move you to tears as a matter of fact it's the most boring story in the history of boring stories, so basically my mother was brown and probably unmarried, she named me Mithila and put me up for adoption, first an orphanage, then a foster home and finally Miss. Jennifer Woods officially adopted me as she had no one to, okay wait I don't know why she adopted me, I have no absolute freaking idea. I just know I have been living with her for the past ten years and with the amount of money she is spending over my education I don't think she has any plans for sending me back or anything, I hope so but who knows as I hardly meet her like three times every four months so....

I don't know what to say on that. I guess she is nice and is a very hard-working goal oriented person along with being an extremely professional person, something along the lines of being a lawyer but her reason for adopting a little brown baby remains UNSOLVED.

Though I believe only I am the one who doesn't know the big reason as everyone in her family treats me like this life-saving Angelic Human Being, like her father who lives in London and pretty much all her sisters, cousins etc just loves me where as Miss. Woods hardly and like HARDLY even knows what's going on my life and speaking about what's going on in my life, What is going on in my life? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON MY SHITTY LIFE? WHAT?

Why is the classroom which usually has hardly 15 people suddenly cluttered with more than 40 ? did I just forget my way after one year of having the same class? No this is the classroom, I am right then all the others must be wrong! Okay that doesn't make sense WHAT?

I head towards the notice board, praying with every bit of my soul that the classrooms had shifted or something because in this moment of time MY SOCIAL ANXIETY IS HAVING SOCIAL ANXIETY, I look towards the huge notice dated of three days ago and then I realize I had just missed the part where it mentions "For the next one month Section A and B would have combined classes" my heart is pumping in  my throat, can I just not disappear? Please someone tell me this is not happening. So Mr. Albert had told us that the school was hiring some child psychologist to give us a small one month course on psychology and the whole boogie working psychologist stuff, all the glits and glam but he didn't say we were having COMBINED CLASSES! NO!

I try to be as discrete as possible while simultaneously loosing my chills and try to follow the centuries old method which is apparently proven to solve all kinds of problems, BREATHE.

After about doing that for three whole minutes with no result I take my bag into my arms and make my way to the second last row as it's not the "I know everything ask me anything" 1st row and neither the "I am trying to hide myself as I don't know anything but I know you would ask the first question to me" last row so let me very quickly tell you my game plan going in to this which is ...disappear.

I rub the temples of my head to relax a bit and I seriously don't know how long I had been repeating that motion as I was abruptly stopped by Mr. Albert's introductory speech for this new temporary teacher/trainer/huge deal everyone pay respect but honestly I was so busy calming myself down I hardly caught a word except "She had degree from Stanford University and she was a student of Liberty Highs" as the guy repeated it like a hundred times on the beginning of every sentence and finally as he stopped I got myself together as much as I could and looked straight ahead to see this Miss.Meredith of Stanford.

Not gonna lie but she actually is pretty, with her slight crooked nose , sharp jawline and hazel eyes perfectly framed by her short brunette hair and her petite figure, she might be the prom queen of her year. She is not very old and I think she is in her early thirties or something but the most surprising fact about her which instantly made me like her was that she was alive from inside out and trust me if you live in my shoes even for a hour you would know how much of a surprise a happy person totally contented with their life is.

She came to the front flashing a smile at all of us who are clearly struggling to get air due to the over population which has been stuffed into one tiny room and nevertheless began to speak, she has a good accent I noted in my mental journal.

She had just asked some orientation style question which was along the lines of "What is actually Psychology?" and in the fraction of a second my eyes fell on the guy sitting one row ahead of me, what the hell? I didn't know Caleb Hester had Psychology, oh my goodness what is happening today? 

So a little rewinding scene, the middle school Isabela had this gigantic little crush on almost the crush of every girl that year The middle school Caleb Hester, so the middle school idiot Isabela of course told that to her Middle School best friend Lena who also happened to have a crush on him, long story short, I wanted to keep my crush a secret she wanted to propose him, so Lena proposed Caleb, Caleb cordially rejected, to hide her embarrassment she said I was the one who had made her propose to him for myself, things got super awkward so I wrote him a "sorry" chit and ran the opposite direction when I saw his shadow for  three freaking years. 

Do I still have a crush on him? No a classic story of teenage infatuation, Am I still embarrassed? Heck yeah!  

Back to the present, one of the lead nerds just stood up and gave her the book definition, so here's thing I am no nerd but I really do study this subject and I don't know why something just seemed off about his definition however as I don't have the guts to disagree to the topper I stuck to keeping my mouth shut. Miss. Meredith wasn't quite pleased either as she asked him to sit down and said the definition was too "bookish" and she needed something "real" she was about to ask another person from the back, oh god! not me! when may god bless that person's soul someone else raised hand and all the burning attention shifted to that.

Miss Meredith asked her to stand up and it's none other than Inayat the too nerd even for the nerds girl, I am so curious to what she has to say because as much as I don't want to believe Lena's judgement of her character I kind of secretly do and that's why ladies and gentle man all humans are hypocrite including me I guess.

She begins to speak what psychology is in real life and I find myself agreeing to each of the points she mentions while Miss Meredith looks at her with pleased expression while nodding here and there, after finishing her definition, she turns to the head nerd and says, "With all due respect Psychology includes not only the conscious but as well as  unconscious phenomena, and your definition was wrong" 

My mouth literally drops open and so doe the mouth of almost everyone in the room as in the history of this no batch no one and I mean NO ONE has ever picked up a mistake in this guy's answer, she is a complete badass for doing that, wow!

I turn to her expecting a triumphant smile lighting up her face but when I see her I realize her face is dark and it looks like she is freaking out like a person who just committed a murder by mistake and then I realize she did just commit a murder, she killed her social life in Liberty Highs as now the nerds hate her and let's just say she is now the member of the Random Division but even there is the Extras ans her face indicates that she has realized that too.

So Lena was right she really can't fit in the nerds but not because she is too nerdy  rather because she is just too smart and makes even the nerds insecure about their "Talent."